Officials with the Erie St Clair Local Health Integration Network are preparing for changes to health care in Ontario. 
Kathy Borthwick, Patient/Family Advisor, Erie St. Clair LHIN says the organization will continue to work to build partnerships across organizations to improve care.
“We have some amazing people who are very actively engaged through the encouragement of the LHIN and the Home and Community Care Teams around how we can partner, patient experience partnerships are critical ” Borthwick says.
CEO Ralph Ganter, CEO of the Erie St. Clair LHIN says a lot of what the government was saying this week is already part of the LHIN plan.
“We heard the Minister (of Health, Christine Elliot) talk about quadruple-aim as being one of the principals behind where they want to go with the reorientation of health care,” Ganter says. “Our integrated health services plan also speaks to the quadruple-aim and in terms of where this is likely going to go, we’re trying to understand the continuum of care.”
The Government of Ontario announced this week that they plan on dissolving the 14 provincial LHINs and merging them with a number of other health agencies across the province.
What that means for the employees of the LHIN has yet to be announced.
